This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with drama students at the Paris Conservatory, making a film (the inner story) about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert. Wallowing in maudlin sentimentality, this feature fails to live up to the promise of its probable inspiration, Fame (1980), and was not well-received at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. However, as a medium for instructing director Francis Girod's actual students at the Paris Conservatory about the art and perils of filmmaking, it was undoubtedly a good deal more successful.
Directing | Francis Girod | Director |
Writing | Yves Dangerfield | Writer |
Writing | Francis Girod | Writer |
Production | Ariel Zeitoun | Producer |
Sound | Romano Musumarra | Original Music Composer |
Camera | Dominique Chapuis | Director of Photography |
Editing | Geneviève Winding | Editor |
Art | Jacques Bufnoir | Production Design |
Art | Sylvain Chauvelot | Production Design |
Production | Daniel Chevalier | Production Manager |
Sound | André Hervée | Sound |
Sound | Claude Villand | Sound |